Rethinking Food System Transformation

Contents
The abandonment of maize landraces over the last 50 years in Morelos, Mexico: a tracing study using a multi-level perspective
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Data collection and analysis
	Analytical framework
	Results
		Reduction of the cultivation of maize landraces in the families and municipalities
		A multilevel perspective on why farmers reduced the cultivation of maize landraces
			Radical innovation: the introduction of maize hybrids
			Changes in the maize cultivation regime
			Climatic macro-level changes favoring hybrids
			Macro-level urbanization and market regime changes favoring hybrids
			Macro-level and market regime changes favoring Ancho
			Policy and cultural regime changes favoring hybrids
			User practice changes affecting specific landraces
			Alternative markets affecting maize
			Macro-level changes affecting maize
			Policy and cultural regimes changes affecting maize
			Resistance against the transition
	Discussion
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
How to include socio-economic considerations in decision-making on agricultural biotechnology? Two models from Kenya and South Africa
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Socio-economic considerations as a new object of regulation
	Theoretical and methodological approach
	Socio-economic considerations in Kenyan biotechnology
		Agricultural biotechnology regulation
		The application form
		Public consultation
		The NBA board
		Kenya: bottom-up and inclusive
	Socio-economic considerations in South African biotechnology
		Agricultural biotechnology regulation
		GM yeast
		GM potatoes
		South Africa: ad hoc and case-to-case
	Discussion and conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small-scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Theoretical background and conceptual framework
		Agricultural innovation from a social network perspective
		Incorporating geographical space and mobility: towards a translocal network perspective
		Research framework
	Methods and procedures
		Site description
		Data sampling and processing
		Methodological considerations
	Results
		Current agricultural changes in the study site
		Distribution and composition of advice
		Advice sharing networks
		Actor network position and actor attributes
		Institutional context and key actors of agricultural change
			Selected key actors in the sugarcane network
			Selected key actors in the rice network
	Discussion
		Local versus translocal: distribution and composition of advice
		Top-down versus bottom-up: innovation systems
		Translocal networks versus embodied experience: migration-related translocal knowledge transfers
		Intensification versus extensification: Viability of migration-related knowledge
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
Correction to: Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small-scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand
	Correction to: Agriculture and Human Values https​:doi.org10.1007s1046​0-019-09935​-0
Food sovereignty in place: Cuba and Spain
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Setting the scene: spaces of food sovereignty
	Place matters
		Background
	Food sovereignty in place
		Sites of exchange
		Confronting food sovereignty
		Reflections from home
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Understanding the relationship between farmers and burrowing mammals on South African farms: are burrowers friends or foes?
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Materials and methods
		Study area
		Study species
		Data collection
		Statistical analyses
	Results
		The characteristics of farmer respondents
		How knowledgeable are farmers on the ecology of burrowing mammals?
		How tolerant are farmers of burrowing mammals on their farms?
		What management techniques are implemented to control burrowing mammals?
		Factors that influence farmer knowledge, intolerance and management
	Discussion
		How knowledgeable are farmers on the ecology of burrowing mammals?
		How tolerant are farmers of burrowing mammals on their farms?
		Which species do farmers set out to manage?
		Different values attached to different species
		The relationship between knowledge, tolerance and management
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
Value structures determining community supported agriculture: insights from Germany
	Abstract
	Introduction
	CSA and basic human values
	Conceptual framework and methods
	Results
		Replication of Schwartz value theory with CSA members
		Differences in value orientations between CSA members and the German population
	Discussion
		Practical and theoretical implications
		Limitations
		Further research
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Livelihood strategies and household resilience to food insecurity: insight from a farming community in Aguie district of Niger
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Methods
		Conceptual framework
		Sampling technique and data collection
		Empirical method
		Components description and analysis method
			Access to basic services (ABS)
			Adaptive capacity (AC)
			Assets (A)
			Income and food access (IFA)
			Social safety nets (SSN)
			Stability (S)
	Results
		Livelihood strategies
		Resilience
			Access to basic services (ABS)
			Adaptive capacity (AC)
			Assets (A)
			Income and food access (IFA)
			Social safety nets (SSN)
			Stability (S)
			Resilience index measurement (RI)
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Translocal practices and proximities in short quality food chains at the periphery: the case of North Swedish farmers
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Short food supply chains
	Proximity matters
	Analytical framework
	The case study approach: method, context and relevance
	Results
		Beyond certification: the emergence of quasi-organic food niches
		Translocal communities of quality food practices
	Discussion: the works of proximity in shaping food niches at the periphery
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Background
		Plant genome editing
		NGOs in the debate about agricultural biotechnology
		The social and ethical dimensions of agricultural biotechnology
	Methods and research design
	Results
		Power and control
		Terminology
		Consumer choice
		Problemsolution framings
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Subverting the new narrative: food, gentrification and resistance in Oakland, California
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Understanding gentrification through critical food studies
	Research approach
	Resistance as a business model
	Direct action
	Policy and planning
	Discussion and conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Parent activists versus the corporation: a fight for school food sovereignty
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Neoliberalism and school food
	School food sovereignty
	The study
	Methodology and researcher positionality
	The journey to overthrow a corporation
		Desire for local autonomy and benefits
		Parent activist distrust of and frustration with the corporation
		Slow and steady does not win this race
		Where do we go from here?
		Influence of other places on local parent activism
		Finding other districts who ousted corporations
		The union complication
	Implications
		Defeating Goliath
		School food: the local and the global
		Toward school food sovereignty
		In short, school food sovereignty
			Participatory
			High-quality food
			Cultural congruence with communities
			Ethical, local economics
			Environmentally sustainable
			Attentive to justice (labor, humane)
	Epilogue
	Acknowledgements
	References
Introduction to the symposium: rethinking food system transformation—food sovereignty, agroecology, food justice, community action and scholarship
	Symposium contributions
	Conclusion and future directions
	Acknowledgements
	References
Food justice, intersectional agriculture, and the triple food movement
	Abstract
	Introduction
	The mainstream U.S. “food movement” context: corporate agriculture and local food
	The food justice movement
	From West Oakland to Detroit: the case of black farmers
		The West Oakland farmers market
		The Detroit black community food security network
	Queer food justice activism in the eco-queer movement
		Queer youth programming at bushwick campus farm
		Queer farmers in Northern California
		Queer food justice activism
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Pockets of peasantness: small-scale agricultural producers in the Central Finger Lakes region of upstate New York
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Peasants in the United States?
	Subsistence production within the substantive economy
	Intrinsic and extrinsic conditions of farming
	Farming in the Central Finger Lakes Region in upstate New York
	Methodology and research design
	Self-sufficiency and co-sufficiency
	Community and cooperation
	Subsistence-oriented farming in a capitalist world
	Subsistence-orientation as social struggle
	Repeasantization in the Central Finger Lakes
	Conclusion and discussion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Action research on organizational change with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier: a regional food bank’s efforts to move beyond charity
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Literature review
		Theories and definitions of hunger and poverty
		Economic crisis, growing inequality, and poverty: impacts in New York State
		The emergency food regime: critiques and contradictions
	Methods: action research for organizational change
	Findings
		Discursive change in FBST’s strategic plans
		Advocacy, education and its impacts on participants
		Phases of organizational change
			Phase 1
			Phase 2
			Phase 3
	Discussion and analysis of changes in organizational practices from 2008 to 2018
		Defining the problem and its solutions
	Conclusions
		Reflections about collaborative inquiry and AR
		Reflections on organizational change
		Implications
	Acknowledgements
	References
Gardens and Green Spaces: placemaking and Black entrepreneurialism in Cleveland, Ohio
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Literature review: community development, placemaking, and entrepreneurialism
		Placemaking and entrepreneurialism
		Placemaking and philanthropic capital
	Historical geographical background
	The gardens and green spaces pilot program
		Methods, data collection, and project evaluation
	Placemaking and entrepreneurship at the intersection of art, culture, and food
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Participatory plant breeding and social change in the Midwestern United States: perspectives from the Seed to Kitchen Collaborative
	Abstract
	Introduction
	The Seed to Kitchen Collaborative
		Priority setting
		Implementation
		Outreach
	Seed to Kitchen success: connecting plant breeding to social movements for food system change
		Plant breeding for organic systems and regional agriculture
		Participatory research in organic and local food movements of the Global North
	Seed to Kitchen Opportunities: plant breeding, seed sovereignty and food justice
		Community seed sovereignty
		Intellectual property rights
		Food justice initiatives
		Ways forward
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
To save the bees or not to save the bees: honey bee health in the Anthropocene
	Abstract
	Introduction
	The Anthropocene
	Honey bee health challenges
	Methods
		The conventional approach to honey bee health
		A more “natural” approach?
	Apiculture in the Anthropocene
		Novel ecologies and shifting baselines
		Hybridity
			Bees as “ghosts”
			Bees as “things”
			Bees as both?
		Not-so-natural selection and fitness
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Todd LeVasseur: Religious agrarianism and the return of place: from values to practice in sustainable agriculture
	References
Andrew Fisher: Big hunger: the unholy alliance between corporate America and anti-hunger groups
Michelle Bastian, Owain James, Niamh Moore, and Emma Roe (eds): Participatory research in more-than-human worlds
Shane Hamilton: Supermarket USA: food and power in the cold war farms race
Books received